dillon



4 Sheets-Sheet 1. P. DILLGN.

Type-Setting andDistributing-Maohin e. Patented Mar. 16,1880.

Wiine s a e .s I nvenior.

R wfizaflzp.

N-VPEYERS, PHOTD-LITHQGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D, G.

4 Sheets-Sheet 2.

I DILLON. Type-Setting and Distributing-Machine. No. 225,468. Patented Mame, I880.

Wilnesses v lnvenior. j'if z .j imz N.PETER8. FHOTU-IJTHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. 11C.

4 Sheets-SheetB.

P.DILLON.

Type-Setting and Distributing-Machine. No. 225,468. V Paterited Mar. 16,1880.

N-PETEW. PHOTD-UTHOGRAFNER. WASHINGYDN. I10.

4 Sheet s-Sheet 4 P. DILLON. Type-Setting and Distributing-Machine.

Invenior Vviineses NPETERS, PNDTO-U'IMOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER DILLON, OF SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, CANADA.

TYPE SETTING AN D DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,468, dated March 16, 1880,

' Application filed December 18, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PETER DILLON, of the city of Sherbrooke, in the Province of Quebec, Dominion ofOanada, machinist, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type; Distributing an d Type-Settin g Machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, (in four sheets,) and to the letters of reference marked thereon, (wherein similar letters represent like parts,) making a part of this specification.

-The nature of my invention relates to the automatic distribution of type into tubes or cases so constructed as to be adjustable to the assistant setter for subsequent use.

Sheet 1,; FigureI is an end elevation of the distributer with the assistant setter attached, with tube or case E of type standing in position upon the assistant setter. Fig. II is a front elevation of three assistant setters with three tubes or cases standing in position. Sheet 2: Fig. III is a front elevation of the distributer. bar D, end view. Fig. V is a front view of channels b and division-walls a a a of the sliding bar D, with the driving and stop motions. Sheet 3: Fig. VI is the plan or surface view of the distributer, showing galley Y, containing pushers 0 C, type, channels b bof bar D,

and tubes or cases E for type. Fig. VII is a side elevation, showing cam H, lever Q, spiral spring-pawl It, ratchet-pusher C, type, section of bar D, and tube or case E. Fig. VIII is a plan of pusher, type, channels with channelwalls, and tube. Fig. IX is a view of cam H, lever Q, pawl R, andratchet-pusher 0, but

' worked by an elliptic instead of a spiral spring.

Fig. X shows the frame of sliding bar D. Fig. XI shows a side View of one of the channelwalls a of the sliding bar D. Fig. XII shows three. of the channel-walls, a a a, two channels, b b, with two pieces, 0 c, projecting from each channel below the channel-walls, to form the rack underneath the sliding bar D in which the stop-bars O O and pawl L work. Sheet4= shows the same method of distributing, obtained by a cylinder motion instead of by the sliding bar D. Fig. XIII, plan Fig. IV is a section of the sliding of cylinder; Fig. XIV, front elevation of distributer.

The distributing-machine consists of a frame, A, of iron or some other suitable material, erected on which is a bed-piece, B, with a sta tionary galley, Y, on the surface, .at right angles with a channel sunk in the bed-piece B to receive the sliding bar D, the channel being so cut as to permit the sliding bar D to slide forward and backward immediately in front of the galley Yand at right angles to it.

The sliding bar D is constructed with a frame, Fig. X, Sheet 3, fitted to receive and contain the desired number of channels I) b I), through which the types are distributed into their respective tubes or cases E E, which are placed in position on the bedpiece B immediately opposite the channels b b b of the bar D.

The channels b b b are constructed in the bar D by inserting in the frame of the bar a number of small pieces of metal cut out with a die to secure accuracy. Of these small pieces of metal some constitute the division-walls of the channels, and are herein termed channelpiecesja a a. Others, the alternate small pieces, are inserted between these channel-pieces a a at below the channels b b b, and extendabout an eighth of an inch lower than the channel-pieces a a a, so as to form on the lower edge of the bar D a rack, and are herein termed rackpieces, 0 c c.

The channel-pieces a a a have wards a cut in them to correspond with nicks cut in the type. The channels b b b of the bar D thus formed are of the width of an em of the type, and the bar D contains for each nicked type a channel, b, to receive it and no other.

The galley Y is made on the surface of the bed-piece to receive the type to be distributed, and the pushers O O to push the types into the bar D.

The pushers O O are made of small piecesof metal or suitable material, of the thickness of an em of the type, are about the height of a type, and of suitable length, with the rear end slotted, as shown in Figs. VII and IX, and having a ratchet cut on the under piece of the slot.

The tubes or cases E E are made of metal or suitable material and of suitable length and height, the width being that of an em of the type in the interior-that is, of width to make the interior space. the width of an em of the type; As they lie in position on the bed-piece B of the distributer they are open on the top and at the end next the bar D.

Fig. VI, Sheet 3, represents the surface of the distributer ready for operation, the type and pushers O O in the galley Y, and the bar D at right angles to the galley Y in front of it.

Method of distribution: In the process of (listribution a handful of type (not aline at a time) is taken from the column to be distributed, and is placed in the galleyYin frontof the pushers O O, and between them and the bar D. The machinery being set in motion by thedriving-wheel F, the bar D moves forwardin front of the galley Y by an intermittent motion, the distance of an em of the type at each intermittent motion, and the types in the galley Y are forced by the pushers O 0 into their corresponding channels b b I) of the bar D, through these channels 1) bl), and into the tubes or cases'E E. Until the channel a, with wards corresponding to the nicks on a type, appears opposite to the type so nicked, the latter-remains in the galley Y 5 but so soon as the channel with wards corresponding to a type is brought opposite to it the type is forced through into its channel, and afterward, by others of the same letter or character, through the channel into the tube E, standin g opposite the channel to receive them.

Operation of the machinery: The machinery is moved by power attached to the drivingwheel F, which is attached to the shaft Gr, upon which the two cams H and P are placed, so as to revolve with the shaft G. The cam H conveys the forward motion to the bar D by means of pressure upon the lower lever, I, on the shaft J, communicated to the upper lever, K, which moves the pawl L forward in the rack cart on the under edge of the bar D. This pawl L is swung on a pivot, and has the remote end made large and heavy, so as by its weight to overbalance the pawl end, thus keeping the pawl L raised in the rack a a a. The cam H also conveys motion by pressure to the lever M, and thence to the lever N, which latter works the stop-bars O O by an upward motion into the rack to a a in front of the pawl L, so as to check the forward motion of the bar D, causing the forward movement to be intermittent, at a distance of an cm of the type at each intermittent motion. The stop-bars O 0 work through the guide-casing X, which is attached to the frame A. The other cam, P, conveys motion to the pushers O C by pressure upon the lever Q, attached to the pawl R by an elliptic spring, causing the pawl R to move the pushers G 0 through pressure in the ratchet of the pushers whenever a nicked type appears opposite to its corresponding channel in the bar D. When the type and channel do not correspond the pusher remains stationary by the bending of the elliptic spring. These pushers O 0 may also be worked by levers with a spiral spring, as shown on Fig. V.

After the sliding bar-D has been moved for ward till its rear channel, a, has passed in front of the galley Y the forward motion is stopped by means of the pin 07, Fig. III, placed on the under edge of the bar D, and projecting downward so as to strike against and move forward the lever V, which, swinging the other arm of the lever W upward, raises the heavy end of the pawl L high enough to dislodge the pawl L from the rack a a a. The bar D being thus disconnected from the driving-motion, it is drawn back to its original position by the weight S, attached to the pin U by a cord passing over the wheel T. The backward motion caused by the weight S is stopped by the pin 6 striking against the lever V and movingit and the shorter arm W to its former position, thus causing the pawl L again to ascend into the rack at cm,- and the bar D, being thus again connected with the driving-motion, resumes the forward motion.

The assistant setter consists of a grooved plate, f, to the front end of which is attached the conductor-lever g, the horizontal end of which lever is an extension of the plate f, and is also grooved. This lever g is so attached as to have its forward extremity elevated about an eighth of an inch above the level of the plate f. The perpendicular arm of the lever g, descending from the pivot, is connected at its lower extremity by the connectingbar h with the lever i, which operates as a handle to the pusher j, which is held by itin position in the groove of the plate f. For the purpose of assisting the compositor in setting, a tube or case, E, filled with the distributed type, stands on end on the plate f, immediately behind the junction of the lever g with the plate f. The pusher j stands in the groove of the plate f, immediately under the tube E. When the compositor presses the elevated end of the lever g by a slight pressure of the finger downward, the lever g, by the connecting-bar h working against the lever '6, causes the pusher j to move backward on the plate f. The groove in the plate is then occupied by a type descending into it from the tube E. The finger of the compositor being removed from the lever g, the spiral spring 70 causes the pusher j to spring forward, pushing the type in groove forward to the end of the conducting-lever. The more pressure of the compositors finger in the removing of this type to set in column causes the repetition of the same movements of the levers and spring, and assists the compositor in his work of setting by always having a type ready for his finger and thumb at the end of each conducting-lever.

It is obvious at a glance that although in the drawings this assistant setter is attached to the distributer, it may be used as well in any other position, as found most convenient to the compositor.

Sheet 4: The foregoing specification fully describes the distributer and assistant setter, as illustrated on Sheets 1, 2, and 3. The Sheet 4 illustrates the adaptation of the same method to a bar similarly constructed in all respects to the sliding bar D, except that it is made in a circular form and attached to a cylinder, by means of which it is made to revolve immediately in front of a number of galleyssix, or more or less-in such away as to obtain the same method of distribution of the type as is accomplished by the sliding bar D. The advantage of the cylinder movement and revolving bar will be to avoid the loss of time necessarily occasioned by the backward motion of the sliding bar D, and to cause the distribution to be continuously carried on from a number of galleys instead of from one.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The distributer consisting of a frame, A, with a bed-piece, B, erected thereon, havin a galley, Y, formed on the surface to contain the types in quantities taken direct from the column and placed in the galley Y without being separated or divided into lines, in combination with the cam P and the lever Q, working upon thepawl R, and also in combination with the sliding bar D, actuated by the cam H, operating upon the levers l and K, work ing on the shaft J, so as to work the pawl L,

and also operating upon the levers M and N, to'work the stop-bars O 0 in the back of the sliding bar D.

2. The bar D, consisting of a frame in which are inserted channel-pieces a a a and rack pieces 0 0 0, to form the channels b b b and the rack on the lower edge of the bar.

3. The combination of the cam P, bell-crank lever Q, and pawl R, connected to it by the spring q, and the pusherG, having the ratchet c, all constructed substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. The assistant setter, consisting of a grooved plate, f, with a forward extension, also grooved, connected by a pivot and forming a lever, g, the descending end of which is connected by a bar, h, to a second lever, t, at-

tached to a pusher, j, which is moved forward in the groove of the plate j by a spiral spring after having been moved backward by the lever t, by means of pressure upon the forward extremity of the first lever, 9, all substantially as described.

PETER DILLON. Witnesses: I

WILLIAM WHITE, GEO. H. BRADFORD. 

